Gvim offers a GUI for the basic editor. Nvi is a slightly
different version of vi from the University of California at Berkeley.
Working with emacs and Its Clones
GNU emacs is the infinitely customizable, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink editor/work
environment. It was the first product of the GNU Project, and so is beloved by many freesoftware
purists.
It is the text editor that keeps your hands busy over the keyboard with seemingly odd
multiple keybindings (Ctrl+X to begin a command and another combination to complete
it). Learning emacs is a supremely geeky thing to do.
If vim has everything an editor should have in one pretty, if sometimes impenetrable,
package, emacs is a modular monster. emacs reads email and Usenet newsgroups, browses
the web, and composes web pages in HTML, XHTML, XML, and sundry other formats as
well. It offers a development environment for practically every extant programming
language. You can even see a sublimely odd conversation between Zippy the Pinhead and
a psychoanalyst. But to do all this, you must have the proper mode installed.
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